How To Remove Pizza Grease From Clothing

3 Incredibly Easy (and Effective!) Ways to Get Grease Stains Out of Dress

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As you lot know by now, we are officially in burger season. And that ways every last one of the states is bound to cease upward with a grease stain or three on our favorite summer pieces. It'southward a trip the light fantastic toe you're familiar with: Overjoyed with excitement, yous take a bite into a fresh-off-the-grill burger that's stacked high with all sorts of fixings. You lot get a mouthful. And, out the opposite end, drips some grease. Right onto your best summertime dress! But information technology'southward not similar yous're gonna stop eating burgers.

The good news is that y'all don't have to. And you don't accept to resort to wearing a poncho, either. Because there are 3 very simple tricks to getting grease stains out of clothing.

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Our Favorite Method for Getting Grease Stains Out of Wearing apparel: Dish Soap

This method makes perfect sense when y'all remember about information technology. Liquid dish soap was designed to cut through grease, and so what'due south stopping information technology from cutting through grease on a shirt versus a blistering sheet? Zippo! Just squirt a bit of dish lather correct onto the stain and let information technology sit down for a little while earlier washing. In one case the wash cycle is done, bank check for the stain. If yous don't see information technology (yous likely won't!), you're clear to ship the detail through the dryer. Bonus: This trick fifty-fifty works for old stains. Ones that accept been washed and stale repeatedly!

Nosotros've had swell success with this method, but in example you want others, here goes.

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Method 2: Baking soda

If the stain is fresh — like, just-happened-kind-of-fresh — baking soda tin its office to absorb and elevator the stain. Just sprinkle the baking soda on top of the grease and wait for five to 10 minutes. Then, use a castor to scrub the baking soda into the stain. The baking soda will change color (read: turn brown). One time information technology's all brown, scrape the blistering soda away and repeat until the stain is lifted and the baking soda no longer changes color. You can then do the dish soap play a joke on from above to be extra thorough.

Method 3: Salt + Stain remover

Consider adding a can of Shout Avant-garde Grease-Busting Foam to your laundry line up. Buy it now and yous'll accept information technology on hand when an emergency strikes. While you're eating, sprinkle the stain with table salt (information technology works like baking soda to absorb and lift the stain). When you can practice the laundry, spray the stain with this foam wash the garment in the hottest h2o that's condom for the fabric and make sure the stain is gone before you dry out the item.

Practise you have any cinch tricks for removing nutrient and grease stains from clothing?

Lisa Freedman

Executive Lifestyle Director

Lisa Freedman is the Executive Lifestyle Director at The Kitchn. She has never met a cheese or a washi record she didn't like. She lives in New York land with her husband and their pup, Millie.

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